Jia Chai
Engineering Manager at minacolor Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolJia Chai is an engineering manager and tinkerer with a decade of experience building products and teams across startups and creative agencies, currently leading engineering at minacolor in Tokyo. A Computer Science graduate from NUS with additional studies at Stanford and a background in games tech, he blends hands-on development with product-minded leadership—having opened and grown new engineering branches and led cross-functional initiatives at Zeus and Zeus Living. He’s co-founded a creative agency (Pixel Rife), led integrations and devops projects, and still ships independent hardware/software projects, including two successfully funded Kickstarters (LifeClo and Metrom). Comfortable across full-stack systems, tooling, and developer experience improvements, Jia brings a practical, curiosity-driven approach to solving ambiguous problems and mentoring teams in small-company environments.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Management Science and Engineering, Management Science and Engineering at Stanford UniversityNUS Overseas CollegesDiploma, Digital Entertainment Technology, Diploma, Digital Entertainment Technology at Nanyang PolytechnicBachelor of Computing, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
persistence7
redux7
rxjs7
react7
reactive6
react-native6
database6
javascript5
asynchronous5
pouchdb3
teamcity2
chrome1
nodejs1
chrome-extension1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cjx3711/jap-converb
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 20 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 5 months
conjugatejapaneseweb-applicationverbs
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